ADJECTIVE
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characterized by soft sounds
a soughing wind in the pines
a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines
a murmurous brook
How To Use murmurous In A Sentence
- A more immediately evident reference to the goat-being sequence is in Joyce's use of ‘hither and thither’ to indicate a murmurous, tactile speech-act.
- He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered. Underworld
- She responded to the long, artful caress with a low, murmurous moan. ALL ABOUT LOVE
- Jacqueline du Pre was a gawky 20 year-old with a dazzling smile when she stepped into Kingsway Hall, Holborn, on August 19, 1965 to find Sir John Barbirolli on the rostrum and the London Symphony Orchestra in murmurous mood.
- So he took the lute and swept the strings, and by Allah, I fancied they spoke in Arabic tongue, with a sweet and liquid and murmurous voice; then he began and sang these couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- He told himself calmly that those words had absolutely no sense which had seemed to rise murmurously from the dark. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The murmurous crowd, pensive and excited, exits the room, funneling like oil through the one passage once again into the trench.
- He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered. Underworld
- a murmurous brook
- The liquid coursed down the fabric in rivulets and emptied into a semicircular metal basin below, producing the murmurous sound of a steady downpour.